Four acquires data and insights-led agency Legend Engage
Four Communications Group (Four) has acquired data and insights-led agency Legend Engage. Rebranding to Four Engage, the agency will move immediately to Four’s headquarters in [...]
Coffin on Cake rebrands and appoints MD
Coffin on Cake has been rebranded to GUNG HO, following the agency being acquired by consumer sport and lifestyle PR agency GUNG HO Communications last year. At the same time, [...]
Hanover partners with German public affairs agency
Hanover Group and German public affairs agency Johanssen + Kretschmer have partnered to support clients across their respective markets, including London, Berlin and Brussels, [...]
Ex Disney PR Lizzie Earl launches MUNCH
Lizzie Earl, who has spent the past 10 years in PR roles at Disney, Frank and Golin, has set up a new consumer agency called MUNCH, with launch clients including sportswear [...]
Thirteen to become part of Newgate Communications
Newgate Communications has integrated fellow Porta group company Thirteen Communications, creating a new practice focused on consumer and public engagement. Thirteen’s [...]
Beattie opens Cornwall office
Beattie has opened an office in Helston, Cornwall to serve the south west of England. Associate director Amanda Fry established the new office to help win business and grow [...]
Tavistock advises on Dee Valley Group takeover
Tavistock was recently appointed by Dee Valley Group plc, the holding company of Dee Valley Water, to advise on its £84m takeover by Severn Trent plc, which became effective [...]
Five Zero Communications wins five new clients
Five Zero Communications, the Exeter-based corporate, B2B and tech specialist, has won five new clients. In the first few weeks of the year, the agency, which was set up just [...]
Beattie reports record profits in 2016
Beattie Communications Group Limited has reported a record year of profits in 2016, according to accounts registered at Companies House. Last year, the agency group [...]
Rule 5 launches video content venture – ‘V’
PR and digital comms agency Rule 5 is to launch a new video content venture, ‘V’, at the two-day Prolific North Live 2017 event, which starts tomorrow (15 [...]
Husband and wife former lobby journalists set up PR outfit
Clodagh Higginson, political correspondent for ITV’s Good Morning Britain, has teamed up with her husband John Higginson, a former political editor at the Metro, to launch a [...]
Four Communications acquires Insight Consulting Group
Independent integrated agency Four Communications Group (Four) has acquired public affairs and corporate communications specialist Insight Consulting Group (ICG). ICG, which [...]
Former CYBG comms director launches agency
Barry Gardner, the former corporate communications and media relations director at banking group CYBG plc, has launched his own consultancy Barry Gardner Communications. [...]
Harvard makes changes to leadership team
Chime-owned tech specialist agency Harvard has announced changes to its leadership team, including the promotion of Louie St Claire to group managing director of [...]
Powerscourt supports Bank of Cyprus listing on the LSE
Powerscourt supported Bank of Cyprus, the banking and financial services group, as it listed its shares on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on 19 January. [...]
Nina Sawetz departs BOTTLE to launch Future consultancy
Nina Sawetz has launched her own consultancy called Future, after more than six years at Oxford PR agency BOTTLE, where, most recently, she was head of consumer editorial. [...]
ilk launches London operation
Nev Ridley and Shaun Beaumont, owners of Leeds-based PR agency ilk, have invested £185,000 into the opening of a new London office and appointed client services director Beth [...]
Publicis Health rebrands PR and medical education agency
Publicis Health’s PR and medical education agency has been renamed Publicis Resolute. Along with the new name, the agency has launched a new website, new social media channels [...]